#1 "Islam has always been part of America"
#2 "we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities"
#3 "These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common,
and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the
dignity of all human beings."
#4 "America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in
competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of
justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
#5 "So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the
region where it was first revealed"
#6 "Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and
racial equality"
#7 "As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found
dignity and peace in their Muslim faith."
#8 "I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here
at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month."
#9 "That experience guides my conviction that partnership between
America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't.
And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United
States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they
appear."
#10 "I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's
story."
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10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity
#1 "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation"
#2 "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."
#3 "Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?
Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that
eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy,
which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?"
#4 "Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions
between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten
Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity – are central to
Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be
modified to accommodate modern life."
#5 "The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the
majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed
to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment
to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in
counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in
their politics."
#6 From Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope: "I am not willing to have
the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent
rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health
insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same
sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers
an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the
Sermon on the Mount."
#7 "I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of
the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some
little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith
to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my
religious makeup."
#8 "Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will–they
have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is
accessible to people of all faiths."
#9 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: "If people find
that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the
Mount."
#10 "I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that
is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are
connected as a people."
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